Some people might hate it, due to the negative light on football fans, but as a football fan, I didn't find it, disrespectful at all. As an obsessive-compulsive New York Giants fan myself this one hits rather close to home. And probably at least a little bit deranged. He excels as Paul Aufiero, a life-long fan of New York Giants being brutally hit by one of Giants' top players in a strip club. Big Fan is quite possibly one of the best sports films of all time, and it doesn't have a lick of football in it. Now, where the Wrestler told an underdog story about a guy trying to get back in the game after his life turns out bad and lonely. And why hasn't it started to go there yet? The tone of Big Fan feels very similar to Siegel's past writing venture, The Wrestler. Big Fan is wonderfully written, cliche-free and fully capable of surprising you. Tweet. Was this review helpful?
Extract and Big Fan both feature small-fry heroes who don’t act so much as they get acted upon. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 86%, based on 88 reviews, and an average rating of 7.1/10. He calls to give his opinion about the team, how they will win, and tells another fellow caller, Philadelphia Phil, a proud Eagles fan, that he can basically go eat his own shorts. Original Score: 4/5
He should get a life, do you think? Article Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. His script is solid, and although the last act feels somewhat awkward, the idea is clever.
The rest of the film becomes a distressing and insightful commentary on the vaunted status we afford to our sports "heroes," often at the expense of our own sense of self-worth. Was this review helpful? Home It's how dignified he thinks he is, and how that knit blue cap with "NY" on the front gives his life meaning. Long before Madonna kissed Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Jim Morrison was accused of exposing himself onstage — something Lenny Kravitz accidentally did decades later
He's not as over-the-top into loserdom as DiNiro in "King of Comedy." It also works as a peculiar take on the pathology of sports mania.
What I meant to say is that Oswalt scores high with his portrayal of a sports nut who spends most of his working day as a park attendant writing discourse for his ritual nightly call-in to a sports radio talk show. His performance is the chief, but thankfully not the only reason to see Big Fan. Was this review helpful? Movie reviews for Big Fan. The most bizarrely poignant moment in a movie filled with them comes when Paul’s mother nags her son to get a life like his brother has, like everyone has, and he snaps back at her, “I don’t By this point, Paul has fixed his paranoia on a call-in rival named “Phil from Philadelphia’’ - Michael Rapaport provides the character’s voice and eventually his face.